The purpose of Zhu Cixiang's visit to the DPRK was not for a fake show, and certainly not for tributes worth two to three million taels, but to present to the world a Celestial Civilization Circle that defended the Ming Empire, and at the same time also It is necessary to coordinate the struggles within the Chinese civilization circle.
Because he already knows that the collision between civilization circles is about to begin!
At this time, the Chinese civilization circle needs to show its existence in a high-profile manner.
The Chinese civilization wants the Christian civilization and the Tianfang religion civilization to know where their sphere of influence is and which countries they cover.
We also need to let the Christian and Tianfang religious countries know that the Ming Empire is not alone. The Ming Dynasty is a Celestial Empire protected by a large group of vassal states layer upon layer!
If you want to deal with the Ming Dynasty, you have to be enemies with the vassal states of Japan, Korea, Annan, Siam, Chenla, Laos, Ryukyu, Sulu, Boni, Chahar, Tumut, Junggar and so on!
The combined population of these vassal states alone has a population of tens of millions. Adding in the population of the Ming Dynasty, there are 200 million.
So whoever wants to challenge China should first break their fingers at home and calculate how many times the population of China’s civilization is that of their country?
It is estimated that after breaking off the fingers, there will not be too many countries that dare to offend the Celestial Empire...
In addition to showing the strength of the Chinese Civilization Circle, Zhu Cixi also hopes to strengthen the unity and assimilation within the Chinese Civilization Circle through this "big gathering".
That's right...of course there should be assimilation within the civilization circle!
In Zhu Cixiang's view, compared with the Christian and Tianfang Sect civilization circles, the huge Celestial Civilization Circle is stronger in terms of its large scale and weaker in the degree of assimilation.
Therefore, strengthening assimilation and striving to achieve unity as one is the ultimate goal that Zhu Cixiang pursues.
In order to achieve unity within the civilization circle, we must work hard to promote Confucianism... because the only thing that the Ming Dynasty could fight against Christianity and Tianfang Sect was Confucianism (Neo-Confucianism) strengthened with "Zi Lun Ge Wu Pian" ).
Although the local religion of the Ming Dynasty developed into the three religions of "Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism", Buddhism was too passive and could not compete with the Tianfang Sect, which used sword and fire to spread the truth.
Taoism is also not very positive, and its theory is not perfect enough. Many aspects cannot be justified, and it will encounter great difficulties when it is disseminated to the outside world. As for perfecting Taoist theory, and then injecting the spirit of struggle into it to make it a religion powerful enough to compete with Christianity and Tianfang Sect... This is basically taking the shell of Taoism and creating a new religion!
It means nothing except political correctness.
In addition, the current three religions of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism in the Ming Dynasty are based on Confucianism (Neo-Confucianism). And Neo-Confucianism, which has been strengthened by "Zi Lun Ge Wu Pian", has the theoretical weapon of studying things to achieve knowledge, and its combat effectiveness has reached more than one level. It is simply impossible to defeat New Confucianism with an improved Taoism.
In fact, Confucian theory can be integrated with Western philosophy (especially natural philosophy). Once integrated, the "discovery of natural principles" can be confirmed to a certain extent through "investigation of things to gain knowledge", and at the same time, the theory of natural principles cannot be falsified.
Therefore, the theoretical doctrines of Confucianism are quite complete and cannot be defeated by Taoism at all... Studying things to gain knowledge and discovering the principles of nature is "Scientology". It is not blind to challenge "Scientology" with a "sect of cultivating immortals" Are you kidding?
And this quite complete and powerful Confucianism will, to some extent, have a fierce conflict with Tibetan Buddhism and Theravada Buddhism - the native Chinese Buddhism of the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese one who can only "recite Namo Amitabha". Jodo Shinshu is nothing. The former has been trained in Confucianism, while the latter has no religious theory.
Compared with Theravada Buddhism, which has little force, Tibetan Buddhism, which is supported by the three Mongolian vassal states and two vassal towns, will undoubtedly become a big player in the cultural circle of the Celestial Dynasty.
Of course, facing the powerful New Confucianism, Tibetan Buddhism can only be on the defensive...
As the leader of New Confucianism and the emperor of the Celestial Empire, Zhu Cixi's current task is to work hard to promote New Confucianism into the territory of Yellow Sect Mongolia, and at the same time unite Yellow Sect Mongolia.
What a headache!
"...Our Junggar tribe plans to establish a Junggar Kingdom in the Dayuzi, Zhongyuzi, and part of the Small Yuzi areas, as well as in the grassland areas of the Irqis, Ob, and Yenisey river basins. , as the western vassal of the Celestial Empire, I sincerely request His Majesty the Great Emperor’s permission!”
In the Xinuang Pavilion of the Huangji Palace, it was Galdan who formally proposed to the Emperor of Heaven the founding of the country on behalf of the Zhungeer tribe.
He unfolded a huge map in front of Zhu Cixiang, and what was depicted on the map was the extremely vast Jungar Kingdom!
It's a kingdom, not a khanate!
"Does Sengge know the difference between a kingdom and a khanate?" Zhu Cixiang asked with a smile.
Obviously, he was not annoyed by Zhungeer's request for statehood. Because the establishment of the Jungar Kingdom was originally proposed by him!
The vassal system is not a unified system!
It is an optimal combination between administrative costs and territorial area. Under the transportation and communication conditions of the 17th century, it was an impossible task to establish the rule of floating officials throughout the entire territory of the Celestial Dynasty. Therefore, establishing a three-level governance system of direct provinces, internal vassals, and external vassals is the only way to control the Celestial Empire.
The land occupied by the Jungar Kingdom was too far from the center of the Ming Dynasty, there were too many enemies around it, and the situation was too complicated, so that it could not be governed by internal vassal towns and could only establish a vassal state.
"Your Majesty, my brother, Sengge, knows the difference between a kingdom and a khanate," Galdan replied. "My brother, after careful consideration, decided to follow your majesty's will and establish the Jungar Kingdom."
The biggest difference between a kingdom and a khanate is that the former will adopt the organizational form of a grassland nomadic country, closer to a tribal alliance.
The latter will use the Central Plains countries as a model to establish a "regular" country.
"So..." Zhu Cihong asked, "If Zhungeer is a kingdom, then the ruling center of the kingdom will be..."
“In Stone City,” Galdan said, “the city the Uzbeks call Tashkent!”
Located at the intersection of nomadic and farming areas in Central Asia, Tashkent is an ancient city with a long history.
"Already defeated?" Zhu Cixiang asked.
"It should have been defeated." Galdan said, "When I led the delegation to leave Chuhe City, Brother Chen's orthodox troops besieged Tashkent City. Brother Chen's army has cannons presented by His Majesty, which are enough to break the city wall of Tashkent."
What the Ming court provided to the Jungar Khanate was a new six-pound cannon, cast in bronze and capable of firing six-pound solid bullets and shotgun shells. Although it is not enough to break the bastion, it is still enough to deal with the traditional castles in Central Asia.
"How does he plan to govern the vast grassland area?" Zhu Cixiang asked again.
"Brother Chen wants to divide the internal vassal tribes on the grassland and build a fortress that can station a certain amount of troops for a long time." Galdan said, "The internal vassal tribe will have thousands of nomadic households, and there will be a total of front, rear, left, and right , east, south, west and north, there are a total of eight thousand households, which are ruled by the minister's brothers and uncles respectively. These eight vassal tribes will be mainly herdsmen who are willing to continue to cross the Jungar tribe, plus some Kazakh herdsmen. compiled.
The garrison bastion was directly under the royal court and guarded by the royal court's troops. "
"What about the people under the royal court?" Zhu Cixi asked again.
"Brother Chen wants to establish 30,000 households in the upper, middle and lower parts of the royal court," Galdan said, "of which the upper 10,000 households will be stationed in Chu River, the lower 10,000 households will be stationed in Stone City, and the middle 10,000 households will be stationed in Haohan... If Kokand can be captured.
While setting up the royal court with 30,000 households, Brother Chen also wanted to set up three prefectures of Chuhe, Shicheng and Haohan to manage the people of the three prefectures. "
Zhu Cixiang nodded repeatedly, "There must be experts around Sengge, right?"
Galdan replied: "There are two Yellow Sect lamas, both Mongolians. One is called Mingzhu Lama and the other is called Sanbao Lama. They both have a unique style. They are the humerus of Brother Chen. In addition... there are many Talents from Manchuria are serving the Jungar Kingdom.”
